Nigeria delighted to host IWAF – FG

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says Nigeria is delighted to host the third International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) World Aviation Forum (IWAF), which began in Abuja on Monday.

Sirika stated this at the Cocktail to welcome guests and participants to the forum which is holding for the first time outside the ICAO Headquarters in Montreal, Canada.

He said that aviation was the way to go to foster economic development, stressing that the forum would afford Nigeria the opportunity to address the infrastructural deficit in the sector.

Accordung to him, with a population of over 170 million people, Nigeria accounts for more than half of the populace of West Africa.